Publication Items

SEJ Urges Prompt, Full EPA Release of Ash Spill Testing Data [1]

SEJ urged EPA Region 4 to release promptly and fully any environmental monitoring data it collects related to the December 2008 spill of coal ash from an east Tennessee impoundment.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJ Urges Energy Department To Drop New Secrecy Rule [8]

The Society of Environmental Journalists has urged the Energy Department to abandon a new rule making it easier for the agency to deny or resist Freedom of Information Act requests.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [9]
Journalism & Media [4]
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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DOT Stifles Report on How Climate Change Will Affect Gulf Coast Infrastructure [10]

It wasn't exactly a secret that climate change will have drastic and often harmful impacts on the roads and causeways, chemical plants and oil/gas pipelines, and shipping facilities along the Gulf Coast. Two reports released in March had already said so.
But another report on the same subject from the Department of Transportation was buried deep in the bureaucracy - as has been the case with many reports on climate change impacts during the past eight years.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [11]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Utilities Say Public Can't Handle the Truth About Drugs in Water [12]

When water providers find pharmaceuticals in drinking water, they rarely tell the public.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Soybean Groups Pull Funding for Biofuel Research Over Climate Findings [15]

Two soybean industry groups temporarily suspended about $1.5 million in grants to the University of Minnesota for biofuel research after it found using food crops for fuel could worsen global warming and cause other environmental harm.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Federal Shield Law Awaits Senate Action-Blocked by Sen. Kyl [16]

Judiciary Committee leaders urged Senate leaders March 6, 2008, to schedule a floor vote on a bill to create a federal "shield law" for journalists.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Read It Now: Suppressed CDC Great Lakes Toxics Report [17]

After Congressional Democrats criticized them for suppressing a report on toxic substances in the Great Lakes, and after an independent investigative journalism group published excerpts, the Centers for Disease Control finally published it March 12, 2008.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [18]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJournal Fall 2004, Vol. 14 No. 2 [19]

In this issue: Looking at the mundane agencies of your beat may startle; Great Lakes series shows big picture of everyday issue; Bush's "Healthy Forests" lacks solid science frounding; following the money; anatomy of the 9/11 risk-communication fiasco; national reports better define GMO threats; teflon chemical (not in pots and pans but probably in you); and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [20]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJournal Winter 2004-05, Vol. 14 No. 3 [21]

In this issue: 'Get the story talking': making connections between people and the altered land; The enormous task of writing about consumption...for the complete hotlinked table of contents, click on the journal cover.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [20]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJournal Fall 2005, Vol. 15 No. 2 [22]

In this issue: And the nominees are...SEJ announces finalists in annual journalism awards; The Lesson: You must get some answers on your own...for the complete hotlinked table of contents, click on the journal cover.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [20]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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